Lunan Zhang

Evidence supporting paracrine hypothesis for Akt‐modified mesenchymal stem cell‐mediated cardiac protection and functional improvement

Massimiliano Gnecchi, Huamei He, Nicolas Noiseux et al. · The FASEB Journal · 2006 · 1.1K citations

Cardiac Muscle, Cell Therapy, Engineering +23

MicroRNA-Mediated In Vitro and In Vivo Direct Reprogramming of Cardiac Fibroblasts to Cardiomyocytes

Tilanthi M. Jayawardena, Bakytbek Egemnazarov, Elizabeth Finch et al. · Circulation Research · 2012 · 756 citations · Full text

Secreted frizzled related protein 2 (Sfrp2) is the key Akt-mesenchymal stem cell-released paracrine factor mediating myocardial survival and repair

Maria Mirotsou, Zhongyan Zhang, Arjun Deb et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 531 citations · Full text

Cardiac Muscle, Cardiac Progenitor Cells, Cardiac Regeneration +18

Mesenchymal stem cells overexpressing Akt dramatically repair infarcted myocardium and improve cardiac function despite infrequent cellular fusion or differentiation

Nicolas Noiseux, Massimiliano Gnecchi, Marco López-Ilasaca et al. · Molecular Therapy · 2006 · 490 citations · Full text

Isolation and Transplantation of Autologous Circulating Endothelial Cells Into Denuded Vessels and Prosthetic Grafts

Daniel P. Griese, Afshin Ehsan, Luis G. Melo et al. · Circulation · 2003 · 441 citations